Bouncebackability

Wake Up To Money

BBC

Business

4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Felicity Hannah speaks to a small business owner who has paid off their COVID loans and finds out how many of the government-backed loans handed out during the COVID pandemic have been repaid. She also looks at the demise of the convertible car and speaks to the boss of a UK technology company attending SXSW 2026 in London.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Things just swirling around my head.
0:09.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:12.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:17.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:19.5	I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift,
0:23.6	we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:28.8	They did know that I was different.
0:31.7	You had kids together.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.5	Then you met.
0:34.3	Then we met.
0:35.2	The Gift.
0:36.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:40.3	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcast.
0:44.2	Wake Up to Money from BBC Five Live.
0:47.6	Hello, welcome to Wake Up to Money, bouncing back from bounceback loans.
0:52.1	Small businesses across the country are celebrating, paying off the COVID debts that had been guaranteed by the government.
0:59.0	We will speak to one. We'll find out what it meant for them.
1:02.4	Tech, music, film and culture bosses and investors descend on London today for the opening of the South by Southwest Festival, including Michelle Obama, Sir Martin
1:12.4	Sorrell, George Osborne and Anton Deck. Oh yes, we will hear from one tech boss who's also attending
1:18.2	and even the glorious sunshine can't halt the decline in sales of convertible cars.
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